“PROLIFERATION-SENSITIVE” Samuel Hickey of the Washington-based Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, said Grossi’s visit of the two flowers was” important for both professional surveillance and metaphorical reasons”. ” Natanz serves as Iran’s key uranium enrichment facility, while Fordo houses some of its most advanced centrifuges”, Hickey said. Fordo “isContinue Reading
Residents of India’s capital, New Delhi, woke up to a choking smog blanket on Friday ( Nov 15 ), the day after the government started phasing out primary schools and enforcing measures to ease the annual crisis. More than 30 million people live in Delhi and the surrounding metropolitan area,Continue Reading
A Vietnamese defense official announced on Friday ( Nov 15 ) that Chinese defense companies would exhibit at an arms fair in Vietnam next month, indicating a potential resumption of the two neighbors ‘ military ties. Two decades after hosting its first-ever military good, Vietnam will host an international defenseContinue Reading
Weeks later, the CAC announced a follow-up plan that would target “illegal and dangerous content” be circulated on popular online discourse programs.  ,
According to the state-owned Global Times newspaper,” It will target those who spread rumors and false information about public policies and social issues,” adding that some internet users would resort to creating” sentational conspiracy theories.”  ,
” They create dreadful personalities, build troubling stories, and level videos of horrible experience to abuse public sympathy”, the statement read.  ,
To avoid state censors, millions of Chinese internet users have found it necessary to use Mandarin puns, homophones, memes, and another cleverly deceived internet jargon to continue conversations about contentious topics.  ,
Banana fruit for instance, translates to” jin jiao pi” in Mandarin, which shares the exact word as President Xi’s title. But to avoid being detected by censors, netizens may speak to Mr Xi as” xiang jiao pis” online, in place of his proper name.  ,
Shrimp moss, or” xia tai” in Mandarin, sounds similar to saying” step down”.
The online yell for President Xi to resign is known as” Xiang jiao pi xia tai,” which can also be said using emojis.  ,
When Weibo users discuss censorship on the site,” He xie,” the terms for unity and river crab good related in Mandarin.  ,
Weibo people have substituted another seafood like fish because the characters for river crab are now banned and have had dead-end results.  ,
Some observers worry that as repression expands, especially as the Chinese government tries to become a world leader in conceptual AI.  ,
According to Maya Wang, Associate China Director at Human Rights Watch,” What you see in recent years is that the government has tightened such censorship.”
But” fully eradicating” the use of jokes and puns from the internet is very unlikely, said Ms Yew. Given the decentralized and fragmented nature of the internet, she said,” The relationship between Taiwanese citizens and state censors is a cat-and-mouse activity.”  ,
” Chinese users, 1.09 billion of them as of Dec 2023, may continue to create new emotions to escape the editors”, she added. ” The cat-and-mouse sport may just become more powerful”.
After some social media platforms and platforms announced they were complying with the condition and repressing negative information that promoted consumerism and flaunted money, a wave of suspensions hit China’s very wealthy elite online earlier in May.  ,
Google, Douyin and Xiaohongshu, China’s biggest social programs, were only a handful of companies that took a walk against “negative value-oriented information”.  ,
Weibo administrators announced it had taken behavior on users and glad that” showed of wealth and income devotion” as well as “extravagance and waste” –” cleaning up” more than 1, 000 posts of “bad value” behaviour. According to authorities, the site’s 27 records were suspended or prohibited altogether.  ,
Google Holdings, which runs the famous instant messaging program Sq, announced it had targeted records “promoting consumerism” and extravagant lifestyles – deleting more than 6, 000 pieces of content and “dealt with 36 improper accounts”.  ,
In the midst of a surge in outbound tourism, Japan’s latest example of how it is grappling with misbehaving visitors became the victim of an American’s arrest for defacing a reverent Tokyo shrine.
Japan welcomed nearly 27 million visitors through September, a record pace, and their spending added 5.86 trillion yen ( US$ 37.5 billion ) to the economy. But instances of theft, public drunkenness, and “overtourism” at popular websites have sparked debate about how to handle the flood of customers and those who flout the rules.
A 65-year-old American was detained on Wednesday ( Nov 13 ) after being suspected of carving alphabetical characters into a Meiji Jingu Shrine’s pillar on Tuesday.
According to the Jiji information services, the suspect and his family made their way to Japan on Monday for sightseeing. According to Jiji, security camera footage led police to his hotel where he is suspected of infecting the wooden pillar with five letters, each representing a household name, with his finger.
A spokesperson for the US Embassy said employees were in the country and are providing consular help, but they declined to provide further information because of privacy concerns.
As authorities prepare for another storm to hit the capital of Manila over the weekend, Typhoon Usagi weakened sharply on Friday ( Nov 15 ) after sweeping its way through the northern provinces of the Philippines.
On Thursday evening, Usagi, also known as Ofel, made its way to Baggao in Cagayan province as a very tornado.
According to Pag-asa, the Asian company for meteorology reports that Usagi has since weakened and is now heading for Taiwan.
This time, the Philippines has experienced 15th cyclones. As the typhoon’s intensification in the eastern Pacific continues to grow, officials are now getting ready for another one, Man-yi, which was hit eastern towns and the region’s capital over the weekend.
Man-yi may be a very tornado early Sunday, Pag-asa said.
Yet as thousands of families who live in disadvantaged areas fled before the introduction of Usagi, no deaths have yet been reported.
The Chino disaster relief office’s mind official, Rueli Rapsing, stated that city officials are also looking into the extent of the storm’s damage.
After Marce ( Typhoon Yinxing ), there were more homes that were partially or completely destroyed. Now, we’re moving around assessing the damage”, Rapsing said on Friday.
On Friday, the first phase of the evacuation of Typhoon Man-yi’s way will start.
A storm surge of up to 3 meters was predicted in coastal cities of the key provinces, according to Pag-asa, who estimated Man-yi’s center to be located 795 kilometers west of Guian, in Eastern Samar state.
The Philippines is dealing with its seventh wind in a month, which affects Luzon, the country’s largest island.
Tropical Storm Trami and Typhoon Kong-rey brought heavy flood and triggered floods, killing 162 people with 22 also missing, according to federal data.
This quarter saw the first storms in the northern Pacific Ocean at once since records first appeared in 1951, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.
About 20 tropic hurricanes strike the Philippines each year on average, bringing heavy rains, strong winds and dangerous floods.
In a quick general election, Sri Lankans overwhelmingly defeated Anura Kumara Dissanayake, giving the country’s new leftist leader greater legislative authority to pursue measures to combat graft and reduce poverty. Dissanayake, a social stranger in a country dominated by family events for centuries, easily won the island’s national vote inContinue Reading
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s coalition, the National People’s Power ( NPP ), was set for victory in a snap general election, results from the Indian Ocean island’s poll body showed on Friday ( Nov 15 ). In a nation where the land is dealing with a severeContinue Reading
TOKYO:  , Princess Mikasa, the oldest member of Japan’s royal family and great aunt to the emperor, died aged 101 on Friday ( Nov 15 ) in a Tokyo hospital, the Imperial Household Agency said. She had been recovering that after receiving treatment in intensive care after being hospitalized sinceContinue Reading
When Airlines halted flights on Wednesday ( Nov 13 ) after a nearby volcano erupted, causing a 9 km ash tower to fall into the sky, hundreds of travelers were stranded or had their Bali vacations cancelled.
The next day, however, many flights were quick to resume airlines to the Indonesian vacation place, with some providers noting “improved” conditions.
Volcanic dust contains great ash and strong glass-like particles. That can seriously harm a jet engine and possibly cause it to malfunction.
Air is drawn in by aircraft engines, compressed, mixed with energy, and ignited. High-pressure exhaust gases are produced by this method, which propel the aircraft and the engine forward.
To function effectively, motors rely on a specific balance of gas and airflow. Disrupting this air, as geological dust does, may create problems.
Aviation security consultant Michael Daniel told CNA that in the worst-case situation, the abrasiveness of volcanic dust on the website swords can cause an motor “flame-out”, or stoppage.
And indeed, he continued, there have been instances where engines blew up as a result of flying through clouds of volcanic ash.
Flame-outs, among others, can result in lower force, engine, and altitude drops.
Moreover, the high temperature inside the motor also melt the volcanic cup in the ashes, causing it to adhere to and jam engine parts,  , according to the UK Civil Aviation Authority.
Meanwhile, the International Civil Aviation Organization ( ICAO ) reported in a publication that volcanic ash can block plane sensors, leading to inaccurate airspeed predictions and errors.
Windscreens may become partially or completely opaque, which causes an immediate presence risk, and yet pollute the cabin air.